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Julie Graham
For The Lancaster News
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is hitting the Lancaster stage with plenty of sizzle and family drama beginning May 4.
Elaine Roberts of Sun City Carolina Lakes is directing the Community Playhouse of Lancaster County production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. Roberts owned a production company before moving to South Carolina. This is her directorial debut in Lancaster.

From release
The National Association of Letter Carriers will hold its annual food drive Saturday, May 12. Lancaster postal employees will again help Stamp Out Hunger! Across America with your help.
Now in its 20th year, the Stamp Out Hunger! Effort is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Last year, letter carriers collected a record 70.2 million pounds of food from postal customers across the nation.
A total of 1.1 billion pounds of food have been collected along postal routes since the drive began 20 years ago.

Michele Roberts
For The Lancaster News
The Army National Guard’s 178th Combat Engineer Battalion is getting ready for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan, and will report to active duty May 14.
The unit is comprised of about 160 soldiers based at the Rock Hill armory. About 10 of those soldiers are from Lancaster.
Spc. Michael Boone is among the Lancaster soldiers going on the nine-month deployment. Boone said he is looking forward to what will be his second trip to the region.

If not for the decorative Clemson license plate, you likely would not have recognized Monty Blackmon’s blue truck.

The Chevrolet pickup was left crushed so badly that the roof no longer existed. All of the glass was shattered and the exterior was altered in a way that pieces of the engine were the most visible items.

Blackmon was inside the vehicle when all of this impact occurred.

This was back in December 2003, just after the Lancaster County man was involved in a three-vehicle collision that took his life.

A fight between two men and a house doused in cooking grease led Lancaster police to arrest a man for trying to set a house on fire last week.

Dwight Thomas Elder, 60, of Lancaster, was arrested April 20 and charged with attempted arson, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.

Officers made the charges soon after responding to a disturbance in the 700 block of Miller Street at about 10:30 p.m. There they spoke with Elder and another man, and officers noted Elder appeared to be intoxicated, the report said.

A Lancaster man was treated for several injuries to his head and hands after he was attacked by a group of people near a nightclub last weekend.

Lancaster police officers first spoke with the 38-year-old victim about 1 a.m. Saturday, April 21, after they responded to an assault call at the Self Control Brothers nightclub, at 907 S. Market St., according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.